Transfer-slip-holder device



TRANSFER SLIP HOLDER DEVICE. APPLICATION FILED OCT. 13, 1919.

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UMTED 1 starts LOUIS R. PIPER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

TRANSFER-SLIP-HOLDER IBEVICE.

Application filed October 13, 1919.

T 0 all whom it may concern Be it known that I, LOUIS R. Prrsn, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Transfer-Slip Holder Devices; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the characters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to a novel device for holding transfer slips issued upon tl e payment of fares by the passengers.

The objectof the invention is to provide a simple and inexpensive attachment to a change or coin holder in which the book of transfer slips may be placed andheld so as to allow the conductor to have free use of both hands for making change and to provide a convenient place of deposit for the book of transfer slips when the conductor is engaged in making change.

Other objects of the invention are to i111- prove and simplify devices of this general character, and the invention consists in the combination and arrangement of the parts shown in the drawings and described in the specification, and is pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawings,

Figure. 1 is a front elevation of a change or coin holder showing the manner of attaching it to the conductors garment and themanner of applying the transfer slip holder thereto.

Figure 2 is a section on the line 22 of Figure 1 looking in the direction indicated by the arrow.

Figure 3 is a detail section on the line 33 of Figurel.

As shown in the drawings, 10 designates a portion of the garment, as the coat of the conductor, and 11 designates as a whole the change or coin holder which comprises a plurality of barrels 12 formed attheir upper ends with coin-receiving slots and at their lower ends with suitable ejecting mechanism embracing the swinging ejector rings 14 and their spring restored operating The barrels extend between and are attached to upper and lower plates 16, 17, respectively, the ejector rings operating between the lower ends of the barrels and the lower plate 17, which latter constitute Serial No. 330,481.

the support for the stack of coins in the barrels and from which they are ejected by the ejector rings. 18, 18 designate rods or shafts which extend between the upper and lower plates and through openings therein and are provided at their upper ends with hooks 19 which are adapted to hook through apertures in the garment or to be otherwise supported. thereon. The said coin or chance holder and the suspend ingmeans constitute in themselves no part of the present invention and the details of the coin ejector need not, therefore, be further described.

In accordance with the present invention, the hooked ends 19 of the supporting rods 18 are supported in eyelets which are fastened to the garments,the eyelets comprising short threaded shanks 21 which are provided at their front ends with heads 2:2 and are exterior-1y threaded to receive at their rear ends and at rear of the garment nuts 23. The garment is apertured to receive the shanks :21 and by reason of the screwthreaded engagement of the nuts 23 with said shanks and of the presence of the washers 24 between the nuts and garment, said eyelets may be adapted to garments of dif ferent thicknesses, as for winter and summer garments.

Referring now to the construction of the transfer slip holder, which is used in connection with the coin or change holder, said transfer slip holder embraces a suitable spring-held clamp arranged with a member in front of the change or coin holder and between which and the adj acentbarrels of the coin holder the book of transfer slips is adapted to be clamped; the construction of the transfer slip holder embracing means to anchor it fixedly to the change or coin holder. in addition, the transfer slip holder is provided with an z'tnchoring member which is adapted to extend backwardly through an eyelet in the garment and to be fixedly attached thereto so that said anchoring member, operating in conjunction with the hanger rods 18, provide for the entire structure a. 3-point attachment of the device to the garment, such as will hold the device fixedly in place on the garment and until intentionally removed.

The specific embodiment of the transfer slip holder herein shown and which has proven eliicient in actual service, is made as follows: designates the gripping or clamping member before referred to, be tween which and two: adjacent barrels of the coin holder the book of transfer slips are held. In the present construction the said clamping bar is associated with the two intermediate barrels of afour-barrel coin holder, and it comprises the intermediate or closed portion of the U-shaped element which completed by two terminal members or legs 26, 26 that extend rearwardly through the spaces between the two intermediate barrels and the outside barrels of the coin holder. The said clamping bar is spring held in a frame which is arranged at the rear of said two intermediate barrels, said frame comprising a rigid bar which is formed at its ends to provide two straight portions 27, 27 and is formed between its ends to provide curved portions 28, 28 that lie in rear of and are engaged with the rear faces of the intermediate barrels. The said frame is anchored to the intermediate barrels 12 by means of a threaded anchoring stem or stud 30 which extends loosely through an opening in the intermediate part 31 of said frame between the curved bearing portions 23 thereof and said stem is provided at its front end with a fixed head 32. Mounted loosely on said stem or stud 30 between said head and the intermediate portion 3l of the anchoring frame is a general U-shaped clamping member 33 apertured at its central portion for the passage of said stud and presented at said central portion toward the central or intermediate part 31 of the rear frame. Said clamping member is provided with angularly disposed, slightly curved wings 34 which are adapted to bear against the adjacent front faces of the barrels l2 and serve in co-operation with the curved bearing portions 28 of the frame, when a clamping nut 35 fitted on said stem or stud 30 is threaded against said intermediate portion 31 of said frame to hold the stud in place.

The construction described provides means whereby the frame for the transfer slip holder may be rigidly but removably connected to the change or coin holder.

The le 's or side members 26 of the clamp ing bar 25 extend rearwardly through guide sleeves 36 that are disposed between the two pairs of intermediate barrels and the outermost barrels of the coin holder and are fixedly secured at their rear ends to the straight or end portions 27 of the frame; said sleeves being fixed to said frame in alignment with apertures in said end portions. Said legs or side members of the clamp are threaded at their rear ends to receive cylindric nuts 38 which are of dimensions to slide within the rear ends of the guide sleeves 36. 39, 39 designate spiral expansion springs within the guide sleeves 36 and surrounding the legs 26 of the clamping device, and the springs .39 are interposed between the nuts 38 and shoulders 40 which surround the openings in the outer ends of the guide sleeves 36 for the passage of said legs 26.

In order that the transfer slip clamping member may be readily grasped so as to shift it outwardly away from the front sides of the intermediate barrels 12, the central portion of the bar 25 is preferably curved outwardly as shown at i1 and said outwardly curved portion is preferably covered with a. friction coyering, as a short piece of rubber tubing.

The anchoring stem or stud 30, by which the transfer slip clamping device is thus fastened to the change or coin holder, extends rearwardly beyond the said coin or change holder for passage through an eyelet 4l3 removably mounted in the fabric 10 of the garment in the manner shown in Figure 2, said eyelet being like the eyelets to which reference has been made and similar parts bear like reference characters. Said anchoring stem or stud 30 extends through and beyond said eyelet and is threaded to receive a locking nut 44;, whereby the coin or change holder and the trans fer slip holder mounted thereon are firmly fastened to the garment.

In the use of the transfer slip holder thus described, the front bar 25 of the clamping device is adapted to be normally pressed by the springs 39 against the front sides of the intermediate barrels when no transfer slips are held thereby. To insert a book of transfer slips in the device, the forward curved portion ll of the clamping bar 25 is pulled forwardly against the action of said springs 39 to afford space to receive a book of transfer slips, and upon release of said bar 25 it is forced backwardly, by the action of the springs 39, into engagement with the front face. of the book so as to clamp the book between the same and the intermediate barrels 12. It will be noted that the transfer slip holder is so constructed that it will thus clamp any number of transfer slips from its maximum capacity down to a single slip, and fixedly hold the transfer slips in place.

By reason of the extension of the anchoring stud or stem 30 rearwardly past the frame of the coin or change holder and its insertion through the eyelet 43 that is attached to the garment, it will be observed that the entire device may be fixedly attached to the garment by the clamping nut it. Furthermore, this central attachment of the device to the garment, in connection with the suspension of the device by the hooks 19 of the rods 18, affords a 3-point connection or attachment of the device to the garment which holds the device always balanced and also prevents the device from falling away from the garment when the conductor stoops over, such as would be likely to occur if the central suspension and attachment be omitted.

While the drawings illustrate a practical, simple, and eflicient embodiment of the invention, it is to be understood that the invention may be manifested in other embodiments without departure from the spirit thereof as set out in the appended claims. For instance, the clamping bar 25 may be made longer than herein shown to embrace more than two of the barrels of the change holder so as to provide room side by side for more than one book of transfer slips. It will be furthermore understood that other means of attaching the transfer slip holder to the coin or change holder may be employed without departure from the spirit of the invention and without sacrificing the advantages herein set forth.

I claim as my invention,

1. The combination with a conductors change holder, of a spring-held transfer holder having a clamping member which eooperates with a fixed part of the change holder, between which said member and part one or more transfer slips may be clamped, and a transfer holder supporting and guide frame for connecting said clamping member to the change holder.

2. The combination with a conductors change holder, comprising a plurality coin barrels, of a transfer slip holder, embracing a clamping bar normally spring held towards said barrels and comprising guide members that extend rearwardly between the barrels, and a frame fixed to said change holder for supporting and guiding said guide members.

3. The combination with a conductors change holder embracing coin-receiving barrels, of a transfer slip holder comprising a frame anchored to certain of said barrels and formed with guides, and a U-shaped transfer slip clamp, the closed part of which lies abreast and is adapted to cooperate with said barrels to hold a slip or slips therebetween, with its ends engaging said guides, and spring means acting on said ends to force said closed member of the clamp toward said barrels.

41-. The combination with a conductors change holder embracing coin-receiving barrels, of a transfer slip holder comprising a frame anchored to certain of said barrels and formed with guides, and a U-shaped transfer slip clamp, the closed part of which lies abreast and is adapted to cooperate with said barrels to hold a slip or slips therebetween with its ends engaging said guides and spiral springs within said guides and acting thereon and said clamp ends to force said closed member of the clamps towards said barrels.

5. The combination with a conductors change holder embracing coin-receiving barrels, of a transfer slip holder comprising a frame embracing front and rear members engaging adjacent barrels, a threaded stud acting on said members to clamp them on the barrels and forwardly extending guides, a clamp that spans between certain of the barrels and formed with angularly disposed terminals that extend into said guides, and springs in said guides and acting on the guides and said terminals to force said clamp towards said barrels.

6. A. transfer slip holder embracing a frame having means to attach it to a conductors change holder and provided with guides, and a clamp member having a part adapted to span and to cooperate with the front of the change holder and provided with terminals to engage and to be spring held in said guides.

T. A transfer slip holder comprising a frame embracing front and rear members adapted to engage the barrels of a conductors change holder and a clamping stud adapted to extend between adjacent barrels and acting on said members to clamp them on said barrels, and a spring held clamping member adapted to span between, and to be spring held toward, said barrels.

8. A transfer slip holder comprising a frame embracing front and rear members adapted to engage the barrels of a conductors change holder, a clamping stud acting on said members to clamp them on the said barrels and guides extending forwardly from said frame, and a clamping member adapted to span between said barrels and having end members extending into said guides and springs in said guides acting on said end members to force said clamping member towards said barrels.

9. A transfer slip holder comprising a two-part frame adapted to engage adjacent barrels of a conductors change holder, with means to clamp said frame part on said barrels and a U-shaped clamp bar, the terminals of which extend into said guides, and spring means acting on said terminals to force said clamp bar towards said barrels.

In testimony, that I claim the foregoing as my invention I aflix my signature in the presence of a witness, this 7th day of October, A. D. 1919.

LOUIS R. PIPER.

Witness N. L. HALL. 

